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The Player Piano and Musical Labor Allison Rebecca Wente

The Player Piano and Musical Labor By Allison Rebecca Wente

The Player Piano and Musical Labor by Allison Rebecca Wente

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Summary

By the early twentieth century the machine aesthetic was a well-established and dominant interest that fundamentally transformed musical performance and listening practices.This book explores that shift, examining the rise and fall of the player piano in early twentieth-century society and connecting it to the digital technologies of today.

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The Player Piano and Musical Labor: The Ghost in the Machine by Allison Rebecca Wente

Wente's book explores the player piano, and the author is especially interested in issues of labor. The player piano is an important cultural object because it is an instrument of mechanical reproduction with attributes that lie much closer to the realities of industrial labor than does the far more commonly studied audio recording.

The author organizes the material effectively, starting with historical background on the player piano and then using the device to explore a number of topics.

About Allison Rebecca Wente

Allison Rebecca Wente is Assistant Professor of Music at Elon University, where she teaches Music Theory. Her research focuses on mechanical music, especially the role of the player piano in the early 20th century.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1: Queue the Roll: Taylorized Labor Practices and Music of the Machine Age

Chapter 2: Unveiling the Editor's Hand: A Sonic Comparison of Rachmaninoff's C# Minor Prelude on Roll and Record

Chapter 3: Phantom Fingers at Work: Selling Mechanized Musical Labor in a Changing Musical Marketplace

Chapter 4: Absolute Music and the Player Piano

Chapter 5: The Player Piano, Revisited

Additional information

NPB9780367553876
9780367553876
0367553872
The Player Piano and Musical Labor: The Ghost in the Machine by Allison Rebecca Wente
Allison Rebecca Wente
New
Hardback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
2022-06-15
150
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